haa ... tu basket picnic kitaorang. tapi bukan kat norway, tapi kat mandarin oriental. this spectacular event is held every year and as the name implies, the gala dinner promises a scrumptious spread of all types of seafood. walla...

the dishes were stunningly served and the decor was magnificent ... haruslah extravagant pasal kat otel kan, but lets just check these out :

all these are real & fresh from the deep sea, man

i poked and put my fingers on its teeth, tajam gilos siyes tak tipu

a close shot of the monkfish

aww, not to forget the vikings' ship

once everyone was seated, the lights were dimmed and we were enthralled by the 'opening show' by mr MC. seems like the norwegians are proud of their vikings and seafood and thus, we were enlightened about the history of vikings, difference between the vikings from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

oh ya, the vvips that were invited on that night's event were Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen and the Norwegian ambassador. we were also introduced to the event's chef, Chef Frank Naesheim. Chef Frank explained that the buffet was the result of collaboration between chefs from Norway and Malaysia, blendng skills and traditions from the two countries.

The list of food is too long, by the way. there were cold dishes, hot dishes, dishes cooked according to Malaysian style, Japanese style, Western and of course, Norwegian style. Desserts pun toksah kata la .... the chefs were being transparent with the ingredients used for the dishes, yang ada wine wine tu, bleh awal-awal kita slash out from our list to eat kan ... ha jimat masa dan tenaga

*the following pictures were taken from cumi dan ciki because pwincess and prince were both kelaparan, dah tak dan nak snappy-snappy gambaq

we were overloaded with seafood on that night .... we had unlimited servings of lobster, crayfish, king crab, mackerel, atlantic halibut, caviar, salmon etc etc etc. i tasted monkfish for the first time as well .... manis and best giler isi dia, despite its ugliness ...huhuhu. so don't judge the book by its cover yah kawan-kawan .... or in this context, don't judge the fish by its look wakekekeke~